Business View Magazine | November 2019

213 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 levels, therefore saving additional energy and money. To sum it up, on sunny days, the Township does not pay for electricity to illuminate the interior space of the public works garage. Our Public Works employees installed both phases of the project and we received significant rebates from the state to help fund the project.” To investigate further savings, the Township applied for, and received, more funding to have a third-party verification company do a study. The results were outstanding, so the town started rolling that into other areas – the municipal building, police building, courtroom – changing out all the lighting to super-efficient fixtures, and receiving about $18,000 from the state, in the bargain, to be put towards the capital costs of those installations. When Ocean County, NJ Freeholders visited the Public Works Garage to witness the daylighting system, they liked it so much, they began installing the same system in all their old and newly-constructed buildings. A great benefit of Sustainable Jersey is that it can be replicated for other municipalities, counties, We bring commercial solar to life. Our renewable energy pays property owners, lowers electricity bills and rewards investors. New Jersey property owners can earn lease payments by hosting a NextGrid solar farm. nextgrid.com MANCHESTER TOWNSHI P , NEW JERSEY